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- The music: Bill Conti is the goat, and this may be the number one sports-movie score, with dire, comeback, celebration and evil themes.
- The crowd singing what is believed to be the French national anthem before the penalty gives goosebumps; one sings along without knowing the language.
- The crooked referee is in the bag for the Nazis; the Allies play down a man for about 70 minutes and still tie.
- Widescreen and HD reinvented the movie; it is a top-five thank-God-for-HD film.
- The team calls itself Prisoner FC, noticed on about the 57th screening; someone should make the jerseys.
- Pele's scissor kick on Sly in practice is amazing, and his final goal resembles a Champions League scissor-kick goal against Leverkusen.
- POW camps are always a killer premise, especially British officers who have domesticated the camp with sweaters, pipes and gardening, like Colonel Waldron.
- The closing credits listing each player's country helped a pre-internet viewer learn who the players were.
- The good Nazi who just loves soccer is pulled off, though if so, why not manage the team, resign, or escape with them.
- The announcer is really good.
- Beating Nazis at anything, whether recovering archaeological finds, art or diamonds.
- Stallone ends the Cold War and beats the Nazis in two sports movies within five years.
- Conti's score is seconded, and the soccer moves feel like 2021 rather than 1943.
- Pele: Victory is his testament and legacy, bicycle kick and all.